Quotes About Ethics

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

I have to be responsible with my character, my image and my reputation.

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

I have enjoyed an impeccable reputation and have always maintained professionalism.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

I've always been interested in image and reputation management. Because really, when you think about it, it is an old phrase, but all we have is our word and our good name.